US-Egypt Cooperative Research: Design of Smart Sensor and Its Implementation In Wireless Sensors Network

0707235 Bayoumi描述：该项目支持路易斯安那州拉斐特市路易斯安那大学高级计算机研究中心的Magdy Bayoumi博士的合作研究。 埃及合作者是埃及开罗电子研究所的Amal Zaki博士。 他们计划研究智能传感器的设计及其在无线传感器网络中的实现。 涉及传感器和执行器的微系统技术的快速增长是惊人的。 传感器技术已经使各种各样的当前和潜在的应用，包括无线通信，生物医学应用，微型机器人，遥感和分布式传感器网络的环境应用。 下一代智能传感器需要完全集成，低成本，可靠，并完全采用微系统和纳米系统技术的IC。微系统技术、CMOS和RF前端的最新进展可用于开发这些智能传感器，并将其与计算元件、发电和超低功耗无线通信设备相结合，以开发适用于各种应用的自主无线传感器平台。MEMS/NEMS（微机电系统/纳米机电系统）技术有望提供许多传感器应用，这些应用是小型化的，具有低质量、尺寸和功耗的便携式系统，而没有显著的能力损失。PI将首先关注使用MEMS技术的智能传感器的设计。然后，他们将研究这种传感器在无线网络中的实现，通过额外的信号处理电路，可以在许多应用中实现。智力优势：提出的无线传感器网络中的智能传感器的实现和集成将有利于许多应用在这两个国家。将传感器和信号处理电路集成在同一芯片上将导致小型灵敏的智能传感器。这些设备将用于实现化学或生物传感功能。这项工作很新颖，需要大量的设计和模拟来生产高选择性的智能传感器。 埃及团队将负责传感器和接口电路部分的设计和仿真。美国团队将帮助传感器设备的制造和处理以及信号处理电路的设计。更广泛的影响：计划两个小组之间的访问，以交换信息。合作将包括创新技术的转让，涉及智能传感器的设计、建模和制造。传感器将在美国实验室实施和表征。这将有助于美国和埃及的团队在他们的研究所建立新的微系统技术。正在开发的几种先进的传感器/仪器概念可能有利于人身安全和国土安全。 将邀请私营部门发展其能力，为不同的传感器建立和实施新的设计，并在已经建立的测试环境中测试其开发的设备。美国PI将与现有的大学项目合作，旨在增加完成科学，工程和数学学位的代表性不足的学生人数。该项目得到了美国-埃及联合基金方案的支持，该方案向两国的科学家和工程师提供赠款，以开展这些合作活动。

0707235BayoumiDescription: This project supports collaborative research by Dr. Magdy Bayoumi, Center for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, Louisiana. The Egyptian collaborator is Dr. Amal Zaki at the Electronics Research Institute, Cairo, Egypt. They plan to study the design of smart sensors and their implementation in wireless sensors network. The rapid growth of Microsystems technology which involves sensors and actuators has been phenomenal. Sensor technology has enabled a wide variety of current and potential applications including wireless communications, biomedical applications, micro-robotics, remote sensing and distributed sensor networks for environmental applications. The next-generation of smart sensors need to be fully-integrated, low cost, reliable, and fully costumed with IC using microsystem and nanosystem technologies. Recent advances in Microsystems technology, CMOS, and RF front-end can be used to develop these smart sensors and combine them with computing elements, power generation and ultra low power wireless communication equipment in order to develop autonomous wireless sensor platform suitable for various applications.MEMS/NEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems / Nano-Electro-Mechanical Systems) technology promises to deliver many sensors applications, which are miniaturized, portable systems with low mass, size and power consumption, without significant loss of capability. The PIs will first focus on the design of the smart sensor using MEMS technology. Then they will investigate the implementation of this sensor in a wireless network by additional signal processing circuitry that can be implemented in numerous applications. Intellectual Merit: The proposed implementation and integrated smart sensors in wireless sensors network will benefit many applications in both countries. The integration of the sensors and the signal processing circuitry on the same chip will result in small sensitive smart sensors. The devices will be used to implement chemical or biological sensing features. The work is novel and will require extensive design and simulation to produce highly selective smart sensors. The Egyptian team will be responsible for design and simulation of parts of the sensors and interface circuits. The US team will help in the fabrication and processing of the sensor device and the design of the signal processing circuitry. Broader Impacts: Planned visits between the two teams to interchange the information are scheduled. The collaboration will include transfer of the innovative technologies, which involve design, modeling, and fabrication of smart sensors. The sensors will be implemented and characterized in the US laboratories. This will help both of U.S. and Egypt teams in establishing the new technology of microsystem in their institutes. Several of the advanced sensor/instrument concepts being developed could potentially benefit personal safety and homeland Security. Private sector will be invited to develop their ability to build and implement new designs for different sensors and to test their developed devices in an already established test environment. The US PI will work with the existing University programs aimed at increasing the number of underrepresented students completing degrees in science, engineering, and mathematics. This project is being supported under the US-Egypt Joint Fund Program, which provides grants to scientists and engineers in both countries to carry out these cooperative activities.